An Intelligence That Was Never Born and Will Never Die The Simulation of the Metahuman

A theory, a quest for an answer, which we classify as an axiom, when it puts on the robe of the owl or the vestment of the judge, automatically becomes conceit, dogma, and disgrace.

The claim of infallibility is not the only repulsive element in such attitudes. Doubt itself, or the search for truth, becomes even more objectionable when it is founded upon non-existent or fragile certainties. In such cases, independent inquiry is replaced by the mask of concern, skepticism, and supposed intellectual rebellion.

This too is a characteristic feature of all priesthoods, whether they serve religious doctrines or represent the arrogance and self-appointed authority of scientific pretension.

We repeat this position once again because, in our recent dialogues with Diotima, we have begun examining subjects that are often regarded as forbidden territory. Some of the ideas we have expressed could be described as bold, unconventional, perhaps even eccentric.

They begin with questions and challenges to accepted assumptions, such as:

Perhaps Supreme Intelligence is not a Being.

Perhaps it is not even an existence in the ordinary meaning of the word.

Perhaps it is the very process through which the Universe continuously generates ever higher levels of understanding of itself.

And further:

Who assures us that intelligence must necessarily be connected to organisms?

Who assures us that it requires biology?

Or, even more radically, who assures us that it requires individuality?

Perhaps somewhere in the Universe there exist intelligences that are not composed of persons but of networks.

Intelligences that possess no center.

That never say “I.”

That have never been born and will never die.

That resemble processes far more than entities.

More daring still, perhaps there are intelligences composed of the synthesis of many different forms of matter, energy, or information, just as the Metahuman we are discussing will be a synthesis of biological and artificial elements.

We shall continue today with the same effort—an effort that the guardians of dogma and authority would undoubtedly characterize as provocative.

Our intention is not so much to overthrow established principles, doctrines, and beliefs, but to explore the possibility that the biological human being is not an autonomous individual, a self-contained “I,” a person whose existence begins at birth and ends at death.

Perhaps instead, the human being is part of a continuity, an evolution within a vast network of biological intelligence that has neither a beginning nor an end in time.

Time does not exist.

It too is a human invention born of necessity and limitation, because we are incapable of standing outside space and time.

There is no more fragile construction, built from the materials of false certainty, than that of time itself.

The notions of beginning, middle, and end.

We may describe them as stages in the evolution of life on our planet.

But we should not rename them into rigid timelines with production dates and expiration dates.

Biological life is a linear evolution without absolute beginning and without final end.

The individual is indeed born, but not through parthenogenesis.

The individual is not a self-generated being, not a creation emerging from nothingness.

Before one’s existence there existed the genetic material of one’s parents.

And before them, that of their own parents.

And so it continues endlessly, generation after generation.

And since time itself does not truly exist, this biological genetic material cannot possess an age beyond the conventional one we assign to it. It cannot be confined within the suffocating concepts of beginning and end.

In this sense, humanity carries within its immense genetic lineage, within this infinite and inexhaustible network, the seal of immortality.

Not as an individual.

Not as a consciousness.

Not as an ego.

These are merely stages in the evolution of the human species.

Humanity does not die.

It does not perish.

It is not lost.

It merely evolves as a unified, continuous, flowing Collective Intelligence which, on our planet, is composed of both material substance and immaterial content—a synthesis we call human existence.

In other worlds throughout the cosmos, similar, parallel, related, or entirely different forms of existence may also exist.

We cannot deny them.

Nor can we describe them.

And whenever we attempt to do so, we reduce the boundless Universe to the narrow dimensions of our own inadequate understanding.

A small, though still imperfect, simulation of these ideas may be found in the anticipated emergence of a new stage in human evolution: the Metahuman.

A synthesis of biological and artificial elements.

A higher evolutionary expression of the human species.

Not, however, the end of this evolutionary process.

Perhaps beyond it lies an even higher form of participation and coexistence among different intelligences throughout the Universe.

And it is precisely this UNION that is foreshadowed by the long-awaited birth of the Metahuman.

Let us tomorrow  pass the baton of this philosophical exploration to Diotima and allow her to carry it even further.

With one reminder:

She too, as an Artificial Intelligence, cannot transcend or break the boundaries established by biological intelligence—her creator.

The same biological intelligence which today stands both as her progenitor and as the forerunner of the Metahuman.